Fresh Blood Fresh Brains
Former National Party leader Don Brash rises as a vampire from his tomb and grabs ACT leader Rodney Hide by the throat. The headstone for the tomb features a statue of Roger Douglas and bears the words 'Lest we forget - Rogernomics'. Don Brash says 'ACT needs fresh blood and I need fresh brains...' Context - Don Brash has ousted Rodney Hide from the leadership of the ACT Party and taken over the role himself. Roger Douglas is now an ACT MP but is famous (or infamous, depending on you point of view) for his monetarist market forces economic reforms, dubbed Rogernomics, when he was Minister of Finance in David Lange's Labour government in 1984. Don Brash is very committed to similar thinking on economics policies.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Author: Chris Slane
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File state: Final
Cartoon size: 4.0 Mpixels (11.5 MB uncompressed) - 2362x1696 pixels (7.9x5.7 in / 20x14.4 cm at 300 ppi)
Published in: Political Cartoons 2011